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Kendra Hudson

Alexander Woodmansee

English 101 - 5529

July 15, 2022

Midterm Final Draft

At birth, a black boy was given the name, Barack, meaning “blessed”. His parents

strongly believed that in America success is not hindered or promoted by your name. In 2004,

Barack Obama composed and gave his most memorable speech to date as a representative of

Chicago, Illinois. On the evening of this discourse, it was reported that 9 million individuals

were on hand to see him. This was his opportunity to reveal  himself live on TV to The United

States of America and different nations across the world. Obama started his speech by recounting

his family's legacy, and the way in which they had come from the bottom and moved gradually

up to where he was that evening. He specifies how his dad was an unfortunate man who herded

goats in Kenya all through his young life. His schooling took place in a tin-roof shack. My father

was provided the opportunity of a lifetime.

He received a scholarship to attend school in America, the country that so many nations

looked to for opportunities. His mother was an American lady from Kansas. While they were

both in school, Barack Obama’s mother and father met, and fell in love. They jointly shared so

many hopes and dreams of a better future. Consequently, Obama's technique in his presentation

was superb in light of the fact that he utilizes a ton of feeling and speaks freely to his observers

while utilizing words like "we" and "our" which rapidly provides them with a feeling of solidar-

ity and comprehensiveness. Obama likewise utilized numerous expository gadgets that assisted

him with giving his speech areas of strength and significance. His fundamental reason for his dis-
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course that evening was to provide the crowd with a feeling of edification, to get under their skin

and cause them to feel his adoration and energy. The three most utilized key highlights that I

caught from the discourse are tricolon, non-literal discourse and parallelism.

Examining the first logical gadget, the tricolon, it was the element that I perceived to be

the most relevant in his speech. This is an extraordinary gadget for talks and discourses since it

can improve major areas of strength for a strong inclination when utilized accurately. The way a

tricolon works is it has three sections in a sentence, and this incorporates some redundancy

which implies that individuals listening will have a prompt and will be able to draw into what's

being said. One model is his absolute first line “extraordinary territory of Illinois, junction of a

country, place that is known for Lincoln”( Barack Obama, 2004 DNC Speech pg. 1). Here

Obama is enhancing and giving these three associated parts an exceptionally clear significance

for where he was that evening.

Another logical gadget that I distinguished differently is non-literal discourse. This is an

approach to saying one thing however meaning something different. I was enlivened by how

Obama had the option to contrast one thing with another yet find such a variety of comparability.

One model that I found is, “The savants like to cut up our country”( Barack Obama, 2004 DNC

Speech pg. 3). Here there isn't a sense of closeness, yet essentially, he's alluding to a group of

people cutting and dicing America when that is not what truly occurs. It's simply an approach to

providing the crowd with an unmistakable picture of his thoughts.

The third logical gadget that I found frequently in his discourse is parallelism. Parallelism

is the point at which a sentence is developed in a continuous request. Separating one model from

the talk, ‘'occupations to the jobless, homes to the destitute’’( Barack Obama, 2004 DNC Speech
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pg. 4), here Obama is plainly involving two distinct words two times in a similar sentence. This

is an incredible method for communicating his feelings of strength and opportunity.

In the wake of perusing and paying attention to Obama's discourse, I have become more

educated about him, his history, and his beliefs for the future. Obviously during that evening, he

was a man brimming with genuineness, energy,  and love, which makes you eager to hear his

story. Moreover, in the wake of concentrating on a few logical gadgets in class, it became easier

to recognize the importance in his utilization of language. Everything in his speech appeared to

be legitimate, and no part of his delivery appeared to be as muddled as I normally would suspect

a speech by him to be.

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Works Cited

Barack Obama 2004 DNC Speech transcript

Barack Obama 2004 DNC Speech video